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A Confederacy of Dunces
Set in New Orleans, the protagonist is nearly arrested for being a suspicious character and encounters many unfortunate events.
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The Executioner's Song
Re-creates the crime, trial and events leading to the execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, who requested the death sentence.
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The Stories of John Cheever
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these …
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Elbow Room
A beautiful collection of short stories that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive with warmth and humor. Bold and very real, these twelve stories examine a world …
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The Killer Angels
A novel based on the action Battle of Gettysburg.
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The Optimist's Daughter
This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is …
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The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
Written from the 1940s through the 1960s, these stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean Stafford wrote …
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House Made of Dawn
A young American Indian returning from World War II searches for his place on his old reservation and in urban society.
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
Presents a fictionalized account of the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia.
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The Fixer
"Introduction by Jonathan Safran Foer"--Cover.
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Porter's reputation as one of americanca's most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb short stories. This volume includes the collections Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; and The Leaning …
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The Keepers of the House
Abigail was the last keeper of the house and the last to know the Howland family's secrets. Now in the name of her family, she must take bitter revenge on …
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The Reivers
One of Faulkner’s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of …
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South -- and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of …
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Advise and Consent
Complex study of the events and reasons that govern the Senators' decisions when they must confirm the President's choice for Secretary of State.
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A Death in the Family
Jay Follet is healthy, robust, and in the prime of life when he sets out from home one hot summer night to tend to his sick father. He leaves behind …
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Andersonville
From the Publisher: Acclaimed as the greatest novel ever written about the War Between the States, this searing Pulitzer Prize-winning book captures all the glory and shame of America's most …
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A Fable
This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 195. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly …
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The Old Man and the Sea
Traditional Chinese edition of The Old Man and The Sea edited for young adults. The story is told with text and graphics and accompanied with Zhuying (phonetic annotation). A reading …
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The Caine Mutiny
The story of a modern-day mutiny aboard a U.S. naval vessel.
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The Town
The story of a pioneer family and the transition they have to make as urban areas begin to spread in the 1800s.